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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 08/09/2026

#PoemsAbout #FaultLines starts Friday. Write what happens under pressure. The hairline crack. The old division. The thing everybody stepped over until the ground moved. Draft now. Share from Friday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text.

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Kate Rookery @katerookery.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

... hey, so. I think there's going to be another 5-15k on top now. That's still safe, right?

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Kate Rookery @katerookery.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Went AWOL while our house is undergoing repairs. Had to stay with a relative for two weeks and got lots of reading time in as a result. Just got caught up on my masterlist of what I've been reading lately with all my recent titles.

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Kate Rookery @katerookery.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Picked up a few books in passing the book store because I'm a complete sucker and they got new discounted items in. I was surprised in particular to find "Walking Practice" on those shelves (my partner got some classic scifis). The other two are from general fiction and I'd been meaning to nab them.

A photograph of three books overlaid a brown paper bag on a light hardwood floor. The book on the left is light blue with a black, yellow and white illustration made to look like an etching of a stylised solar system.

Text reads:
Ted Chiang
Stories of Your Life and Others

The second book has a black cover with a stylised image of mishmashed body parts and teeth in vibrant, grotesque shades.
Text reads:
"Vibrant and memorable"
- New York Times Book Review
Dolki Min
Walking Practice: a Novel
Translated by Victoria Caudle

The third book has three bands in blue, white and black, with an illustration of a pair of hands forming a shadow puppet of a dog's head.
Text reads:
The Hounding
Xenobe Purvis
"Outstanding"
- New York Times
"A beguiling fever dream"
- Stacey Halls
"Extraordinary"
- The Times
"Tense and absorbing"
- Washington Post
"Exquisitely accomplished"
- Daily Telegraph
"A rare and twisted pleasure"
- Lucy Rose

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Kate Rookery @katerookery.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Picked up some new books recently. The Dressmaker is from an op shop (I went looking for westerns, mostly found Mills & Boon and contemporary Outback Rural Mysteries, which didn't quiiiite fit the itch). The manga is one I've been wanting to pick up and hadn't found locally before today.

Photograph of three books laid out in a loose fan formation on a hardwood floor. The two on the left are volumes 1 and 2 of the On and Off Work-Life Imbalance manga by Shinnosuke Kanazawa. The cover depicts the two main characters wearing Japanese-style punk and lolita fashion ensembles on volume 1 and more old-school punk outfits on volume 2. The third book is The Dressmaker by Rosalie Ham. The cover shows a black and white scene of the outback with the horizon far in the distance and clouds low in the sky. A clothes line has a single dress hanging from it in loose folds. Below a pink bar with the title is a colour version of a similar scene without the clothes line or dress.

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Spooky Pickle 🧚‍♀️Beware the Fairy Seasons🧚‍♂️ @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I didn't do any shouting this weekend, but now I'm back on it! I had to sleep. A lot. I still need more, but it's the work week now. Anyways, got poetry? no? this is a good place to staaaaaart #BookBazaar26 #Poetry #BookSky #Writesky #Books www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Today is the birthday of cartoonist Jackie Ormes (Aug. 1, 1911-Dec. 26, 1985), the first Black woman to create a newspaper comic strip that was read nationally in the US. She created Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem, Torchy in Heartbeats & Patty-Jo ‘n’ Ginger. Patty Jo became a toy doll.

A black and white photo of Ormes at her drawing table.

A black and white photo of Ormes with Patty Jo & Benjie dolls.

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Join our Patreon to unlock monthly giveaways, digital issues, rare author content, ad space for your business or project, and at the higher tiers: short story critiques, invites to exclusive industry events! Here's a treasurE from our archives ;) patreon.com/locus

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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 01/08/2026

This sentiment comes up again and again. Engineers getting skinner-box addiction to chatbot-based coding. "Just one more prompt and it might fix the problem!" Is this really what we want in classrooms?

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Sometimes the solution to a problem is to be a dick about it.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 31/07/2026

#PoemsAbout #LastTrain is live. Post through Thursday. We favour image-driven poems, emotional honesty, working-class grit, sharp endings, and work that avoids cliché. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage. Read 3+, repost, reply. Use Alt Text.

Rainy train platform at night with a stationary train and two figures walking away under station lights. Overlay text reads: “#PoemsAbout #LastTrain”.

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @homebrewandhacking@mastodon.ie @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

AI continues to be an absolute informational plague and a menace. Actual good points remain based on vapour ware assumptions.

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Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Googleadriel: I will do no evil. Offered the ring of power Googleadriel: I will take the ring and do tons of evil, just watch how much evil I’m gonna do, here’s some evil, and more evil … Brought to you today by being pissed off by the ton of crappy AI+Gmail address author scam emails everyone gets

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Good morning.

The Queen of the woods sits enthroned among moss, fungi, trees and stones. Her gaze is dispassionate. On either side of her, her handmaidens weep. Pencil, wash, chalk and White paint on toned paper. Colour applied.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I will be closing my web-shop and art-for-sale for the summer on Monday. So, if you'd like anything in the next month or so (such as the print shown) please order soon. www.tomgauld.com/shop www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale

Two stick figures walk beside a lake, one asks "Do you ever worry that we are living in the reflection rather than the reality?"

They are reflected, upside-down, in the lake. The reflection of the second figure replies with an upside-down speech bubble reading "Sometimes".

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Zeggy @infernulls.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Ahhhhh! Look what a friend @feshforwork.bsky.social bought me! It's an animation cel of Lina Inverse from #Slayers. She can go right beside the Martina I have. @mark-engels.com @subsonicmedia9.bsky.social @lcyruswhelchel.bsky.social

Animation cel of Lina Inverse from Slayers looking shocked.

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Kate Rookery @katerookery.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Watched The Sheep Detectives tonight and glad I read the book first for a few reasons. The film is fun, but flattens a lot of characters out of time constraints and plot change necessity. In its favour, it's also a true murder mystery with the rules included, unlike the novel.

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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Nanjing Paleontological Museum has an in-house traditional Chinese artist, Li Chen, creating paintings of famous Chinese dinosaurs. These are from 2022 exhibition "From Dragon to Bird" and can be purchased in the museum as postcards or book《从龙到鸟系列科学艺术化石复原图》

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New Flesh 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @esedia.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Your food processor has a chute that fits your dick. Should you?

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Okay here's my Disability Pride Month Story Recommendation Thread! I'll update it across the month with books and short stories that I love. (It won't be daily because I am quite disabled and life is about to avalanche on me.) So! Here are things that ruled and that you should read.

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Kate Rookery @katerookery.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Weirdly feeling like I should go re-read Unicorns in the Rain for the first time in decades. No reason.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Not all heroes wear capes. Some meant to but wind up in gorilla masks instead. Thank you to Joyce Kozloff and all the other Guerrilla Girls, whether or not you ever come forward. What you did was so, so important.

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Founding member of Guerrilla Girls reveals her identity

One of the founding members of feminist art collective Guerrilla Girls has revealed herself to be American painter and sculptor Joyce Kozloff.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 26/07/2026

Once again I'm incandescently angry at our billionaire-owned news organizations. Please click through and follow the independent and local journalists in the starter packs in this thread. We HAVE to support and get our news from better sources.

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Spooky Pickle 🧚‍♀️Beware the Fairy Seasons🧚‍♂️ @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Thank you for the awesome chat, Jeb! #TBBChat, I have an OOPS! All Poetry campaign on @backerkit.com with the @the-book-bazaar.com called Fistfuls of Poetry. I'm funding three books & if I reach 100 follows b4 launch, everyone gets a golden pickle! #BookBazaar26 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.

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ShouXin手訫 @shouxin.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Sharing a few kitten sketches that I’m especially fond of. A cat’s movement and stillness, its form and expression, can all be expressed through lines. Free-spirited cats call for free-flowing lines.#shouxinsketch #petart #animalart #illustrationartists #pet #sketch #sketchdaily

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Zeggy @infernulls.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Yay! This is so badass! Thank you so much <3

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Kate Rookery @katerookery.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Found out today that a) Park Seolyeon wrote a sequel to A Magical Girl Retires, which is out next month and b) also wrote a book about the Japanese occupation of Korea. So dropped by the book store on my way home from an errand.

A photograph of two books on a light hardwood floor. The left book has a red cover with stark serif text.
Text reads:
Tilted Axis Press
/
Capitalists Must Starve: A Novel
By Park Seolyeon
Translated by Anton Hur

The book on the right has a starkly yellow and black cover, depicting an ominous figure with an eerie grin and long ears wrapping its arms around a grim-faced magical girl with blonde hair. They are surrounded by falling dandelion blossoms.
Text reads:
01 Story and art by Kaeru Mizuho
Magical Girl Dandelion

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

We got a long way to go, and a short time to get there, Space Unicorns! The Uncanny Magazine Year 13: The Space Unicorn Believes in YOU! Kickstarter is 62% funded! HELP US MAKE ANOTHER YEAR OF UNCANNY MAGAZINE HAPPEN! buff.ly/36qOb2U

Uncanny Magazine Year 12 Covers by Paul Lewin, Katy Shuttleworh, and Galen Dara

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Kate Rookery @katerookery.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

1119 into a new somethingsomething. It's technically an old somethingsomething, but I realised it wasn't working and started over. Let's go with the somethingsomething! (it has ponies)

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

A publisher's office.

The editor explains "Your draft has all the elements of a masterpiece, they're just not in the right order"
The writer looks at her draft on the table and asks "Elements?"
The editor clarifies, sadly "Letters".

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 23/07/2026

It seems Macmillan/Tor have promised to make authors whole on this, which is exemplary. Let's see the other publishers meet this standard @societyofauthors.bsky.social @authorsguild.org

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 23/07/2026

Paraphrasing: bashing your wife is wrong. But rising cost of living is stressful & men are not accountable for regulating their emotions or behaviour & some are shit at it. So women should risk being murdered by leaving, unsupported by friends/family the man has isolated, when he controls their $ 🤬🤬

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Hanson labels domestic violence 'two-way street'

The One Nation leader says women should not "put up with" domestic violence, as she highlights the cost-of-living pressures on families.

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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

In spring the temple's beautiful shidarezakura erupt in an explosion of pinks. The famed poet Saigyō (西行法師 1118-90), who loved cherry blossoms and wrote countless poems about them, is said to have visited the temple numerous times to illicitly meet Empress Taikenmon'in.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

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David Kuhne @davidkuhne.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

There’s something morally obscene about booksellers selling books to AI companies to be used as training data and destroyed in the process.

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𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚎 𝚁𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 @unfitz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Autocorrect changed “bug repellent” to “bug republican” and now the mosquitoes in my yard suck harder than ever.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 22/07/2026

Made a new zine for @handsoffnyc.bsky.social with brilliant artist @priyahuq.art! Hands Off Our Vote! Visit www.handsoffnyc.com/our-vote for the big plan!

Hand holding a zine titled "HANDS OFF OUR VOTE!" with the subtitle "LET'S PROTECT THE MIDTERMS!" Art by Priya Huq shows a multiracial group of people of various ages standing lined up in front of a "VOTE HERE / VOTE AQUI" sign, smiling, with fists raised.

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Kate Rookery @katerookery.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Trying to decide if I stick to the next book I was going to read now that I've finished Piranesi, or let the book that I just got in the post skip the queue ...

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 21/07/2026

Oo, looks like you get a whole month free e-reading if you sign up to Kobo Plus in Australia, and in the UK. 📚🦘💂‍♂️ Or 14 days free and then 1 month at 99cents in the US. If you're based elsewhere and they've got a special in your country too; please comment!

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Good morning. I am a lucky illustrator. I really enjoy every ongoing gig I have. Love my ongoing variant cover work with @miskatonichigh.bsky.social.

A Young female coded figure on the top half resolving into a tentacled monster on the lower bit. They hold a knife with an air of menace. Pencil drawing with colour applied.

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Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

There are about 37 kinds of cicadas in Japan, but most people will encounter 6 or 7 in their local area. The video shows an 'aburazemi' (アブラゼミ 'oil cicada'). This species' whirr was likened to the sound of frying oil. #アブラゼミ #cicada

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Kate Rookery @katerookery.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Oh my god. This belongs in Final Destination.

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Final Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Meta are sending Fucko the Knife Robot to stab you in the knee. To disable go to Accounts> Settings> Robots> Knife Robots> Fucko> Opt Out

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Pete Woods @thatpetewoods.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I think the thing I resent most about gen AI- and this is a selfish thing to say but it’s true- is that it’s put an asterix on my sense of wonder. What I mean is that now when I see an amazing or beautiful image I can’t have that initial “wow!” reaction. I doubt. I have to verify. I hate it.

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